[galewind]

I also like the way that the Coopertition Award is scored, but they ARE announcing the award improperly. At the MAR championships, when giving the award, they stated something to the effect that the award is given to the team with the greatest number of Coopertition Points, but that was incorrect.

By the rules, 708 clearly won the award, with a calculated score of 15 points (1168 had 14 points, and the next highest was a many-way tie of 10). Congratulations on it!

That said, the reward given for the most coopertition points is obviously a higher seed. There were significantly better robots than ours that placed much lower than us because they did not have the opportunity to cooperate as much as we did. Since we were a slightly-above-average shooter who could balance very well, we were able to win a lot of matches via game strategy, and we were able to secure a higher rank by talking to our opponents before the match and agreeing to cooperate with a team we know who could do it. Thus, good communication and scouting impacted our rankings more than our robot itself.

I thought that the effect of coopertition points on the rankings was definitely powerful, and as clear in our case, made it MORE possible that the best robots were not always the highest seeds.

That said, I am curious as to how much the Coopertition Score system has on strength-of-schedule impacting the rankings.